Gertrude Lawrence
(1898-1952), Actress, singer and dancerGertrude Lawrence (Gertrude Alice Klasen)
Sitter associated with 101 portraits
Actress and singer, Lawrence made her stage debut in Dick Whittington in Brixton in December 1908. Lawrence achieved her first major stage success appearing opposite Noël Coward in his musical revue London Calling (1923), having first met in the Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool in 1912. The musical included one of her many signature songs 'Parisian Pierrot'. Lawrence became Coward's great muse and life-long friend, with the author writing Private Lives (1930) especially for her, and they starred together again in Coward's Tonight at 8.30 (1935).
Gertrude Lawrence possibly as the Muse of Comedy
by Yevonde
Vivex colour print, July 1936
On display at The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NPG P871(2)
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass copy negative, March 1917
NPG x30636
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass copy negative, March 1917
NPG x30637
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass copy negative, March 1917
NPG x30638
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 5 March 1917
NPG x30909
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 5 March 1917
NPG x30910
by Alfred G. Wager
bromide print, 1920s
NPG x14707
Gertrude Lawrence; Pamela Howley
by Raoul Barba
bromide press print, 1920s
NPG x184006
by Unknown photographer
hand-coloured bromide postcard print, 1923
NPG Ax160428
by Baron George Hoyningen-Huene
halftone reproduction tear sheet, September 1928
NPG x193433
by Yvonne Gregory
gelatin silver print, 1928
NPG x199949
Gertrude Lawrence as Ann Wainwright in 'Treasure Girl'
by Unknown photographer
matte collodion printing-out paper print, 1928
NPG x196108
by Unknown photographer
bromide postcard print, 1930s
NPG x198217
Gertrude Lawrence in 'The International Revue'
by Hal Phyfe
bromide press print, 1930
NPG x194404
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1930
NPG x14127
by Paul Tanqueray
modern bromide print from original negative, 1932
NPG x29700
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